Musescore in 10 Easy Steps: Part 5 Lyrics, Copying & Dynamics

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The fifth in a series of 10 tutorial videos that show you how to use free notation program MuseScore.
MuseScore is available for Windows, Mac and Linux and can be downloaded from http://www.musescore.org

Video transcript available: http://www.musescoretips.com/2011/01/lyrics-copying-and-dynamics/

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By Katie Wardrobe

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[MisterPapageno]

It's very difficult to write two sillables in one note: in Italian, it's very common to have for example DA - GLI OC - CHI and the two syllables GLI OC become one and in musescore it isn't easy to right it if you don't use a ^ or other simbols instead of the canonic little arch bound inferiorly.

If you could solve this problem, I think musescore would be a really competitive notation program!

[katiesw1]

@mechwarreir2 You select the note where you want the chord symbol to appear and then type Control+K (Command+K on Mac). A cursor will appear above the stave and you can just type the chords in. Press Space to move on to the next note.

[mechwarreir2]

If your making a jazz composition, how do you make chords? And I don't mean the notes, I mean the letter (ie E7, Ab minor 7,  or C9, etc.).

[undekegamisou]

you are brilliant! same goes for the software..thank you

[chimanruler15]

Thanks the tutorials!

[boohooimsad]

@jw31187 go to display - play panel...then change the tempo

[jw31187]

is there a way to change the tempo?

[royalblue0505]

@greyspot00 Thanks for the reply. I'm using a MacBook Pro, OS 10.6.5. It might be a bug between Musescore and my Mac, I don't know. There's something I forgot to mention: my Musescore is version 0.9.6. Maybe I should try downloading version 1 and see if this bug has been fixed. If not, your copy and paste suggestion sounds good. Didn't think of that. Thanks again.

[greyspot00]

@royalblue0505

That's odd. What OS are you working on? I dirty workaround (I'm assuming for this would work for any platform.) would be to copy the letter "m" to your clipboard from a text editor and paste it in every time you need it. Wacky and inconvenient, yes, but it should work for now. I'm no Musescore dev, so I don't know if this is purely a Musescore bug or a bug between Musescore and your OS.

[royalblue0505]

Hi. First, I'd like to say, thank you very much for this free software. It's been very helpful to me. My problem is, while typing in lyrics, when I ht the letter "m," the mixer window appears, and the letter "m" is not typed in the lyrics. How do I get around this? I've noticed that this doesn't happen when I capitalize the "m," but I certainly don't want to type my lyrics in all caps. Hope you can help me with this. Thanks in advance!